Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court John Roberts

By Ike Mgbatogu
Staff Writer

Onumba.com, USA –—— When President Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship was punted to the highest court in the land for ruling, his confidence that he would prevail was a bit shaky.

But he stuck with his plan anyway.

“This decision by the Supreme Court is a very big one, he told reporters in May as the court deliberated on the matter.

“They will probably rule against me.”

Well ——- Sir, they did.

In a 6 – 3 bipartisan shellacking, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship, resoundingly affirming that the 14th amendment of the United States constitution guarantees citizenship to “every free-born person in the land.”

The three liberal judges on the court ——– Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson were already on record for making the case against ending birthright citizenship. But they needed their conservative colleagues to agree. Some of them did. Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh led by Chief Justice John Roberts along with their liberal counterparts struck down Trump’s executive order.

Chief Justice Roberts penned the 26-page majority opinion, stating that citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights —– to freely participate in our political community.

He continued:  “The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free born person in this land.”

Justices of the United States Supreme Court

Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito voted in favor of ending birthright citizenship.

Justice Thomas wrote the 91-page dissenting opinion, arguing that the majority decision “devalues” the American citizenship by granting the same right to children born to “foreign birth tourists and illegal aliens.”

Trump reacted with a defiant call to keep pushing.

“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary.”

“Congress should start TODAY.”